Early Language
22
Meta-analyses
506
Papers
1,957
Effect sizes
36,163
Participants
Abstract rule learning
Can infants learn abstract repition rules from different types of stimuli?
Cross-situational word learning
Infants and children s abilities to learn words across multiple ambiguous situations.
Function word segmentation
Recognition of familiarized function words from natural speech using behavioral methods.
Familiar word recognition
Do infants distingusih familiar words from novel/rare words in listening tasks?
Gaze following
Gaze following using standard multi-alternative forced-choice paradigms.
Infant directed speech preference
Looking times as a function of whether infant-directed vs. adult-directed speech is presented as stimulation.
Label advantage in concept learning
Infants' categorization judgments in the presence and absence of labels.
Mutual exclusivity
Bias to assume that a novel word refers to a novel object in forced-choice paradigms.
Mispronunciation sensitivity
Can infants distinguish correctly and mispronounced words, like dog and tog?
Natural speech preference
Do infants prefer natural speech over other types of sound?
Online word recognition
Online word recognition of familiar words using two-alternative forced choice preferential looking.
Phonotactic learning
Infants' ability to learn phonotactic generalizations from a short exposure.
Pointing and vocabulary (longitudinal)
Longitudinal correlations between pointing and later vocabulary.
Pointing and vocabulary (concurrent)
Concurrent correlations between pointing and vocabulary.
Statistical sound category learning
Infants' ability to learn sound categories from their acoustic distribution.
Statistical word segmentation
Can infants segment words from artificial mini-languages based on syllable-level statistics?
Sound symbolism
Bias to assume a non-arbitrary relationship between form and meaning ("bouba-kiki effect") in forced-choice paradigms.
Switch Task
Infant word learning in the switch task
Symbolic play
Is there a relationship between symbolic play and language development?
Vowel discrimination (native)
Discrimination of native-language vowels, including results from a variety of methods.
Vowel discrimination (non-native)
Discrimination of non-native vowels, including results from a variety of methods.
Word segmentation
Recognition of familiarized content or non-words from running, natural speech using behavioral methods.